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Removal of Write Protection from USB Flash Drive

03/05/2012 2:42 AM

Pls i need help on how to remove Write Protection from my 16GB SONY VAIO USB2.0 Flash drive. I have tried Formatting by explorer and by command Prompt but it doesnt work, i tried deleting the files in it one after the other but it doesnt seem to work.

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Re: Removal of Write Protection from USB Flash Drive

03/05/2012 7:57 AM

Did you get one of these?

Maybe some help here.

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Re: Removal of Write Protection from USB Flash Drive

03/07/2012 9:07 AM

The flash i have is exactly like i have seen meaning it is fake... but isnt there something i can do to remove the write protection atleast i have been using the usb flash drive for a while now. Something with command prompt or registry editor or something

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Re: Removal of Write Protection from USB Flash Drive

03/06/2012 11:53 AM

If you are deleting files, then you are writing to the drive...

What are the symptoms...as in...what makes you think it is "write-protected"?

Maybe it's just broken?
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03/07/2012 6:06 AM

whenever i try deleting, formatting, checkdisking and al, it says i should remove the write protection

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03/07/2012 10:59 AM

1. Remove USB drive
2. Start REGEDIT
3. Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\StorageDevicePolicies
(if the above key does not exist, create it)
4. Double click the key "WriteProtect" from the right side and set the value to 0 (zero)
(again, if the first key doesn't exist then this value will need to be created)
5. Press OK
6. Exit REGEDIT
7. Restart computer
8. Re-connect USB drive

This should fix it (unless it really is one of those cheap knock-offs, then the problem exists on the thumb drive).
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